Upsetting the apple-crumble cart

Baker & McKenzie partner Anthony Foley knows a lot about intellectual property and competition law but he certainly wasn’t prepared for the deregulated apple-crumble market at the Kangaroo Valley Agricultural and Horticultural Show. Foley pioneered the show’s bake-off and proceeded to win it two years in a row. But after holding together his crumble prowess, about 20 neighbours, friends and business associates thought they’d give him a run for his money and donned the oven mitts this year.

Last weekend Foley lost to elderly Kangaroo Valley resident Irene Dunn and none other than this newspaper’s retail writer, Sue Mitchell.

Barrister John Waters’ impressive pie won the People’s Choice Award at the show’s glitzy after-party and Norton Rose partner Richard Fogl also made notable concoctions. Poor Lion general counsel
Duncan Makeig
’s entry didn’t even make it into the display cabinet.

Foley is busily defending his crumble IP so as to regain the crown next year.